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New blood test could be an early warning for child diabetes

Written by | 26 Sep 2024

A new type of blood test using lipids could make it easier to identify children at risk of complications around obesity including type two diabetes, liver and heart […]

Simple blood test can help diagnose bipolar disorder

Written by | 28 Oct 2023

Researchers have developed a new way of improving diagnosis of bipolar disorder that uses a simple blood test to identify biomarkers associated with the condition. The researchers, from […]

New blood test gives very high accuracy to screen for Alzheimer’s disease

Written by | 2 Sep 2023

A new blood test called p-tau217 shows promise as an Alzheimer’s disease biomarker, and when used in a two-step workflow very high accuracy to either identify or exclude […]

Simple blood test may predict future heart, kidney risk for people with Type 2 diabetes

Written by | 24 Aug 2023

A simple blood test may predict the risk of progressive heart and kidney disease in people with Type 2 diabetes and kidney disease, according to new research published today in […]

Simple blood test shows promise for screening common and dangerous pregnancy complications

Written by | 17 Jan 2023

Scientists at Ningbo University, China have identified biomarkers that could provide an early warning system for three common and dangerous pregnancy complications: pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes, and a liver […]

App to help doctors help patients with leukemia

Written by | 28 Jun 2022

lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) will develop a serious infection or need early treatment for CLL. 10 percent of these risk dying within a month. In order to help these […]

Blood test may indicate higher risk pregnancies in patients with COVID-19

Written by | 20 Mar 2022

A small preliminary study from Northwestern Medicine has shown that a blood test may identify risk of stillbirth and placentitis in pregnant individuals who have had COVID-19. The […]

Blood test for depression, bipolar disorder

Written by | 26 Apr 2021

Worldwide, 1 in 4 people will suffer from a depressive episode in their lifetime. While current diagnosis and treatment approaches are largely trial and error, a breakthrough study […]

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